Re: sudden site access failure: realclearpolitics.com

As far as I know, links doesn't support javascript, but it works on 
their site. <sahrug>


On 11/12/2021 1:36 PM, Rudy Vener wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>
> Okay, so I modified my lynx.cfg to use HTTP_PROTOCOL:1.1 and
> to enable its setting in the lynxrc file.
> Set my user agent to:
> Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; XH; rv:8.578.498) fr, Gecko/20121021 Camino/8.723+ (Firefox compatible)
>
> and tried to access http://www.realclearpolitics.com once more.
>
> and get a landing page with this:
>
>     Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker
>
> It looks like they just aren't going to allow any browsers that don't support javascript.
>
> Or am I missing something else?
>
>> On Thu, 11 Nov 2021, Ian Collier wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> I find it interesting that Lynx cannot verify the certificate of
>>> 'realclearpolitics.com' (without the www) because the server is
>>> not returning the certificate chain.  But with the www is a completely
>>> different server which does have a valid certificate.
>>>
>>> Anyway I have found that links (the chain) will display the web site
>>> correctly by default, but gets denied if I supply any one (or more)
>>> of the following options:
>>>
>>>   -http-bugs.no-compression 1
>>>   -http-bugs.http10 1
>>>   -http.fake-user-agent Lynx
>>>
>>> So as far as Lynx (the cat) is concerned, what we need to do in order
>>> to visit this site is (a) change the user agent, and (b) enable HTTP 1.1.
>>>
>>> Enable HTTP 1.1 can be done either in the Options screen or in lynx.cfg.
>>> User agent can be done either in Options or on the command line.  My
>>> experimentation shows that they want at least your OS in the user agent,
>>> so "Lynx (Linux 5)" works, while Lynx's default user agent does not
>>> because it doesn't contain the OS name.
>>>
>>> imc
>>>
>>>
>> -- 
>> ent-